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New York Special.
A remarkable article by the Rev. Dr. Edward
McGlynn. entitled The New Know nothingism
and the DID, will appear in the August mum Der
OF the North American Review. issued to-mor-
row. The paper, which would make over four
columns, is a strong ard vivid presentation OF
the evils and dangers which, in the writer
opinion. threaten American nationality and
American Institutions from. sas he alleges, the
ayowed purpose of German clergymen TO pre-
vent the assimilation of their immigrant
countrymen and their offspring TO the American
tyre. on the one hand. and the political sehem-
ing and sectarian educational tendencies OF the
Roman Catholic Church on the other.
The Doctor begins with a succincs account or
the Know nothing party of a generation ago,
growing out of n secret society which had for its
handspring hostility to the influence off foreign
born citizens IN our American politics, and par
or the Catholic Church Thirty years ago. says
the Doctor, there thought of what to-
day IS with many of our foreign born citizens Of
| other speech than the English. and especially
| with their clergy, whether Catholic Protest
| ant. svowed hope and Intention through
their influence in public schools. and still more
exclusive control, to perpetuate their
| foreign tongue. and TO make it for
all time the LANGUAGE of large
| portions of the country. To the dspassionate
| observer that hope is wild that il seems in
/ credible that il should be entertained By any
| man having the least acquaintance with our
| country Yet it has been avowed me by q
/ German clergyman OF this city, who hattered
himself that Great Britain and ireland
almost exhausted as resources OF Immigration,
1 while Germany, with her forty-fve millions,
would continue year after year to pour hundreds
of thousands of Der people on our shores This
1 insane hope cherished in Wisconsin and in
! the valley of the Northern Mississippi The
| ears of American boys born OF German parents
| boxed by the religious teacher in parochial
| schools in St. Louis. for the heinous offense OF
| speaking the common language of America-the
| English, and clerical superintendent to re-
| proach an American boy OF German parents for
manliness and Independence can find no better
| words do Justice to his reprobaton than to
say, "You American" There is a wide
spread and persistent effort, with scarcely any
attempt to conceal it, to Germanize the Catholic
Church in the Northwest This has been sue
ctssful that the ecclesiastical archlepiscopaI
province of Milwaukee. with its German arch
bishop, and its German theological SEM nary
has been very largely Germanized. and similar
designs for the immediate future are entert aimed
for the great chbIshopries of Cincinnati and
ST. Louis.
The Doctor then expresses his surprise at "the
mildness of toleraton." the indifference, and
in innumerable the actual approval by
Autobiography by those of them that are
represented the public press-of the attitude
of the churches, and especially OF the Roman
Catholic Church toward our government. our
laws. our American principles. traditions and in
situations.
He says: Things have been happening within
the last few years all over the country. and
especially in our State and city OF New York, a
mere 1.-THE of which would, but generation
ago. have stirred the country to a white heat of
anger. But few years ago many bishops as
sembled in the provincial council of Cincinnati,
issued pastoral letter, the product OF the pen
of the Scotch Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland,
which was largely a deliberate thesis against
our Declaration of Independence. in the at
tempt to show that men are not born free and
equal"
Passing to the second point in his article
the evils and dangers likely to American insti-
tutions through the alleged political wire pulling
and sectarlan measures In education of the
Catholic Church-Dr McGlynn says: There is
now avowed determination, as shown in the
last council of Baltimore. TO establish all over
the country great system of parochial schools
in opposition to the public schools. and it
made the most urgent duty OF priests every
whore. under threat of expulsion, to found such
schools. The hope is not concealed that when
the socalled Catholic vote" shall become larger
the poiitians may be induced to appropriate
through State legislation or local governments
all the funds necessary for the support of their
schools. What would the old time Know 10TH
ings think of this9 1t should be noted that these
parochial schools which it is tho design to null
tiply, exempt from taxation, and that thus
the public in some sense puts premium upon n
system of schools hostile to its own, and
courages the laying of an enormous additional
burden upon the poor Catholic people, who have
already paid, directly indirectly. their full
share of the taxes for the support of the public
schools. which it is now the growing tendency to
FORBID them to use under penalty of deprivation
of the sacrements of the church. Another thing
which was unheard of a generation ago is the
appropriation of valuable public lands and
mllIloDs OF dollars or pubic money TO the SUD-
port of all Of sectarian institutions
under the control of churches and especially of
the Roman Catholic Church.
Father McGlynn further states in this connec-
ton, that the priests, and monks, and nuns.
whose institutions thus benefited by the
public. but the embroidered to de-
nounce the schools and other public institutions.
in language at times brutal if not obscene. while
INDUCING IN unwarranted pharlsaic glorifcation
of their own institutions and OF themselves"
Continuing, the writer says that lit is not risk
fnfyy nH1nh Int "a Jar m IN r
schools there would be very few parochiat
schools. and the Catholic children, for all the
churchmen would do for them. would grow up
il british ignorance OF letters"
DR. McGlynn next takes up 1.-The actual and
direct interference in politics of bishops. wears
general and priests in their ecclesiastical ca
pacity and because of their ecclesiastical infiu-
ence promote the pecunary and other tempo
raj objects of the ecclesiastical machine" and
cites several cases to prove his statements.
The article concludes with detailed exposi-
ton of the lines upon which the remedy must
be based. Briefly these Respect for the
rights of conscience; separation of church and
state; the making of this country beacon of
liberty and a refuge to the oppressed of |
all nations of the world: the abolishing OF all |
privileges gransed by public authority to ndivd-
uas or corporations whether civil or religious.
and the equal taxation of the property OF such
corporatious, without exception in favor of any
church charity or school. and the conduct of the
government in all things absolutely for the pub
lic-that is the common good. or in other words.
for the masses. and never for individual or a
class Thus My common schools and common
charities should be supported from the common
treasury and only the common language of
the country should be taught in the common
schools.
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